Aker Arctic
Ensure Your operations with
Aker Arctic Offshore Services
Aker Arctic Offshore provides
services in Ice loads, Ice
Management, Ship and Structure
design and Winterization and Model
testing.
Our comprehensive knowledge in
Ice and in freezing climate is
essential when operating in Arctic
areas.
In icy offshore our services are
widest.
The Ice Technology Partner
Aker Arctic’s experience in offshore ensures
safe and economical operations
Aker Arctic
Offshore Services:
n Ice data & weather
n Ice management
n Ice load calculations
n Ice breaking
n Operational windows
n Supply operations
Harbour operations and
structure planning
Icebreaking supply vessels
Ice management
Ice operation planning and vessel designs
n Winterization
n Offshore concepts
n Model testing
n Oil spill combatting
n Platforms
n Drillships
More than 1 300 designs and tests over 45 years
Aker Arctic Offshore solutions
have provided the backbone of
today’s environmentally safe and
cost-effective Arctic industry for
decades.
In offshore, our unique knowledge
of ice, cold weather and climate
conditions means we can meet all
of our customers’ needs in a
variety of fields.
Aker Arctic has more than 45
years of systematic experience in
developing ships for efficient
operation in ice through design,
model testing, full-scale testing,
collecting of ice data and
assistance in ship construction.
Our full-scale correlation database
is the widest in the world.
We can be your ideal partner, from
preliminary concept evaluation to
construction supervision.
Concept
Type
Tested Ice Condition
Number of
Floe ice/
different
managed
structures Level ice ice
Floater
GBS:s
Jack-up
Ship shape
Other (1)
Total
9
21
10
18
28
81
50
188
162
80
107
567
12
83
17
7
46
165
Total
Ridge/
rubble
Other ice
conditions (2)
18
21
98
219
133
489
0
25
0
1
72
98
80
317
277
307
358
1339
(1) Jackets, artificial islands, rubble generators, loading arrangements etc.
(2) Ice channels, multi-year ice fragments etc.
Other 6
Jack- ups 10
Sakhalin 7
Barents 5
Others 28
Pechora 11
Gravity
Based
Structures
21
Chukchi 16
General 32
Floaters 9
Ship
shaped
floaters 13
Caspian 4
A total of 81 structures (left) for different sea regions (right) have been
tested in Aker Arctic’s ice model basins.
We have comprehensive references
in offshore operations
n Multimodel tests
n Mooring
OAO Sovcomflot
n Drillships
n Structures
OAO Sovcomflot
n Dynamic positioning
n Loading towers
Harbour operation assistance:
breaking space for manoeuvring operation in harbour area
1. In level ice
at maximum speed
n Oil spill combatting
3. Proceeding sideways
2. Start to create wider
channel by turning to oblique
4. Turning around
mode with full power
The oblique icebreaker is exceptionally
flexible to operate. She can be steered
to move ahead, astern and sideways
any time. Additionally she is able to
turn around on the spot in ice, which is
something completely new.
Aker Arctic
Aker Arctic Technology Inc The Ice Technology Partner
Aker Arctic is specialized in
development, design, engineering,
consulting and testing services
for ice-going vessels, icebreakers, offshore structures,
marine transport solutions and
harbours.
Company operates a special ice
model testing facility in Helsinki.
The Aker Arctic full bridge Ice
Navigation Simulator provides
real- time reactions and realistic
features for training ice
navigation and offshore
operations.
The Ice Technology Partner
Areas of core competence
n Vessel designs for arctic
offshore
n Offshore structure analyses
and engineering
n Winterization of rigs, vessels
and structures
n Ice load calculations and ice
modelling
n IMP: Ice Management Plans
for offshore applications
n OSR: Oil Spill Response
studies and plans
n Aker Arctic Ice Simulator
References
The Company has designed a
number of successful ship
concepts and logistic solutions
for Arctic operations.
References include 60% of the
world's icebreakers, many
Arctic or Antarctic research
vessels, and a large variety of
cargo vessels and concepts for
offshore structures.
Aker Arctic has performed
hundreds of model scale and fullsize ice tests during 45 years of
ice model testing services.
Aker Arctic Technology Inc
Merenkulkijankatu 6
FI- 00980 HELSINKI,
Finland
Tel.: +358 10 323 6300
Fax: +358 10 323 6400
[email protected]
www.akerarctic.fi
04_2015
Aker Arctic Technology Inc